Toy pistol.



F. C..WEGENER.

TOY PISTOL.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 8. 1915.

1 19A, Patented July 11, 1916.

FRANK C. WEGENER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

TOY PISTOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 8, 1915. Serial No. 60,953.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK C. WEGENER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Toy Pistol, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a pistol of the class described of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, and in which a series of relatively loud detonations may be produced in rapid succession, simulating the sound made by the firing of an automatic repeating gun.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, wherebv the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a toy pistol embodying my invention, with the detachable side removed to illustrate the interior construction. Fig. 2 shows a similar view on a smaller scale, with the detachable side in position. Fig. 3 shows a horizontal, sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a top or plan view of the trigger device, and Fig. 5 shows a side elevation of same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that what I term the body portion of the pistol is all formed complete of a single piece of material preferably wood, and comprises the stock 10, handle 11 and barrel 12. Formed in the central portion of the stock 10 is an angular recess 13, in which the detonation devices hereinafter described are contained. One side wall of the stock is formed of a relatively thin layer of wood, indicated in Fig. 3 by the numeral 14, which thin layer of wood formsa sounding board for the purpose of greatly increasing the volume and intensity of the sound waves produced by the detonation device. The opposite side of the stock is normally open, and a cover 15 is provided for it hav- Y lng an opening 16 at its central portion through which the sound. waves from the sounding board 14 may freely pass. Within the forward end of the recess 13 is an upright drum or cylinder 1.7 extending from a point near the top to a point near the bottom of said recess, and being provided on its surface with longitudinally arranged teeth or projections 18. On the interior of the cylinder 17 is an,angular opening extending longitudinally through it.

The trigger shaft comprises an angular body portion 19 having a rounded portion 20 at its upper end and a larger rounded portion 21 at its lower end, and formed on or fixed to its lower end is a trigger device comprising a series of outwardly projecting triggers 22. In the present instance four of these triggers are shown. The whole device is so arranged that when the operator grasps the handle 11 he may readily and easily with the fore finger of the hand grasping the pistol, engage one of these triggers and move it through approximately half a circle.

This part of the device is assembled by first placing the ylinder 17 in position in the recess 13 and then forcing the shaft upwardly through the opening in the material at the bottom of the stock where the rounded surface 21 fits into said opening, then extending the angular part 19 of the shaft through the angular opening in the cylinder 17 and then extending the rounded upper end of the shaft through the correspondingly rounded opening in the top of the stock. The angular part of the shaft is either fitted tightly within or is secured to the cylinder 17 so that the only work of assembling consists of simply pushing the shaft upwardly through the various openings whereupon the shaft will be held against movement in any exce t a rotary direction, because the cylinder 1 itself will prevent any up and down movements of the shaft so long as the shaft and cylinder are connected, whereas the two rounded portions 20 and 21 of the shaft permit the free rotation thereof within the stock.

Fitted into a suitable opening in the stock at the rear of the recess 13, is a detonator strip which is preferably made of wood and has its forward end extended to a pointwhere it engages one side of the cylinder 17, and this strip is made of a wood having a considerable resiliency, and is so arranged as to press firmly against the cylinder 17 so that when this cylinder is rotated the end of the strip will first be forced outwardly away from the cylinder by one of the teeth 18 and then when the tooth passes beyond it, it will spring inwardly and violentlv strike upon the fiat portion of the cylinder 17 against the tooth which it has just passed, thus setting up a. violent vibration of the strip,

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passed out through the opening 16 in the opposite side.v

There is a decided advantage in a toy of this kind in having the detonator strip ofconsiderable Width from top to bottom as the amount of sound coming from it, depends very largely upon its width. In a toy of this kind it would be impractical to make a cession for each movement of the trigger,

well proportioned toy pistol with a wide detonatorstrip arranged in a horizontal plane,

" as in that case the width of the toy at the stock would be out of proportion to the other parts. Furthermore, by-having the detonator strip arranged in the manner illustrated, the very cheap, inexpensive and durable trigger device can beemployed in cylinder. and detonator I closedside being. formed of a thin layer of the material ofwhich the body is connection with the Another advantage in aitoy of-this kind is that by having the trigger device 'so arranged that the operator may give the trig.-

ger shaft a relatively long movement, the detonator strip may strike upon the toothed cylinder 17 a number of times in rapid sucthus creating a sound somewhat similar to that produced by an automatic repeating 7 Therefore, by the arrangement and combination of the wide vertically arranged detonator strip, and the sounding board adtions may be made by its use, and these detonations may be made in rapid succession by single movements of the triggerby the.

finger of the operator.

I claim as my invention: 1. A toy'pistol comprising a body portion formed complete of a single piece of material such as Wood, and comprising a stock, a handle, a barrel portion, said stock portion being provided with a relatively large recess closed at the top, bottom and one side, and open at the other side, the closed side strip fixed at one end within said recess ande75 formed of a Wide vertically arranged piece' of resilient material, a toothed cylinder r0- tatably mounted in the forward end of said recess and dyieldingly engaged by the front end of sai strip, said strip and the adjacent sounding board being arranged substantially parallel and close to each other,

and a trigger device for rotating said toothed cylinder.

2. A toy pistol comprising a body port1on formed complete of a single piece of material such as wood, and comprising a stock, ahandle, a barrel portion, said stock portion being-provided with a relatively large recess closed at the top, bottom and one side, and open at the other side, the

made, and capable of serving as a sounding board, a detonator strip vfixed at one end within said recess and formed of a wide vertically arranged piece of resilient mate rial, atoothed cylinder rotatably mounted in the forward enu of said recess and yieldingly engaged by the front end of said strip, said strip and the adiacent sounding board beingarranged substantially parallel and'close to each other, said cylinder being rovided with an angular opening extending vertically through it, a trigger device comprising a shaft extended through the stock from the'cylinder and nxed to it,

whereby" up and down movements of the shaft are prevented uy the cvlinder within the recess, and a series of trigger members at the lower end of said shaft extending horizontally outwardly from it, said parts being so arranged that a single movement of one of the trigger members by the operators finger may result in moving a number vof the cylinder teeth past the detonator strip, for the purposes stated.

Des Moines, Iowa, September 9, 1915.

FRANK C. WEGENER. Witnesses:

A. SHERMAN, J. MAKER. 

